“Ah!”
Nellie failed to grasp the handrail as she rolled to the floor, her small body unable to withstand the
ferocity of the tremors. Seeing her in such a state, Bethan was so frightened that her heart nearly jumped out of her chest. She instinctively stretched out her hand and held Nellie tightly in her arms.
“Don’t be scared!”
Despite holding onto the handrail with all her strength, the two of them still shook back and forth by the car, and it was only after a while that the Ferris wheel finally stopped moving.
Still, the car was tilted.
As the entire car was tilted on its axis, the door was below them, and the car door swayed as if it would break away at any time.
If the door broke, when their strength would eventually be depleted, she would lose her grip and they would fall out of the tilted car! Nellie trembled in fear in her arms. Bethan’s eyes were glazed in ice. So, this was Cynthal’s plan! She thought that, at most, Cynthal only wanted to hurt Nellie—to teach her a lesson—and get back at her. She did not expect Cynthal would go as far as killing her and Nellie! Bethan’s heart tightened fiercely at the thought. She gritted her teeth, slipped out the sturdiest backpack strap, and fashioned it into a safety belt. She tied Nellie to the window bars while she used her clothes as a rope and tied it to her wrist.
“Mommy…”
her voice sounded frail as if she was on the verge of tears.
“We won’t fall, would we? It’s all my fault! I shouldn’t have brought you to ride the Ferris wheel… Mommy, I’m scared…!”
“We’ll be fine.”
Bethan patted Nellie’s back gently and took out her phone with a trembling hand. No signal. She gripped her phone tightly, her fingertips blue and white from the lack of blood circulation. Once again, she underestimated Cynthal’s ruthlessness and Brettley’s fondness for her sister. Boom!
With a loud noise, the car door at Bethan’s feet broke off and fell into the air. At a height of 100 meters, all they could see was a black shadow hurtling in the air when the door fell.
“Mommy…”
Nellie burst into tears, unable to hold herself back. She would have plunged down had her Mommy not tied her up! Bethan took a deep breath as she tried to comfort her, but even as she organized her words, nothing came out in the end. Her mind was blank. At that moment, the crowd in the amusement park was in an uproar.
“Someone is trapped up there!”
“The door of the car has fallen off! The people inside won’t fall down, right?”
“If they fall from such a high altitude, they’ll turn into meatloaf…”
Listening to the voices of those around her, Cynthal changed into a more comfortable position and leaned back on the chair. She turned her head and glanced at the bodyguard next to her.
“Let’s call Brettley. Just say that it was the maid, Bethan, who insisted on riding the Ferris wheel with Nellie, and this accident happened.”
The bodyguard hesitated,
“But…”
Cynthal rolled her eyes at him.
“But what? Do you think that woman will survive? The truth will be whatever we say it is. Also, tell the amusement park staff to fake the rescue. The Ferris Wheel will be repaired after they fall and die.”
“Yes, Ma’am!”
After the bodyguard left, Cynthal fanned herself leisurely and looked in the direction of the Ferris wheel with a cold smile on her lips. ‘Bethan, Bethan… Did you think you could challenge me by sending a little girl like her? It was a mistake to keep the little b*stard. Now that you sent her back yourself, don’t blame me for not giving you a chance!’ …
“Mommy, Nellie.”
On the Ferris wheel, a boy’s calm voice drifted out of the necklace around Nellie’s neck.
“Nigel?”
Bethan’s eyes widened.
“It’s me. I modified Nellie’s necklace. The signal is strengthened so that the three of us can talk through the necklace in case of an emergency.”
The voice of the little boy on the phone was very steady.
“I hacked into the surveillance system of the amusement park, and I can see you now.”
Far away on the other side of the ocean, the thin and pale little boy sat on the hospital bed as his eyes fixed on the computer screen divided into several frames in front of him.
“Neil and I have been keeping in touch. He left for the control room the moment you had an accident. It shouldn’t take five minutes until you’re stabilized, so hold on.”
Bethan bit her lip and was touched.
“Baby, you worked hard.”
Nigel was silent for a while.
“Mommy, you returned home because of me. I told you a long time ago that I don’t care if I can live for a few more years, but you insist on going back… If something happens to you…”
Bethan felt a pang in her chest as she listened to her son’s voice.
“Don’t say that.”
“Nigel…”
Nellie was weak from crying. She hung limply on the window by the strap of the backpack, but her voice was very firm,
“It’s all my fault, not yours, Nigel. I don’t regret coming back to help you. I just regret bringing Mommy here…”
“Oh, let’s not do this right now, alright?”
Neil’s panting voice came from inside the necklace.
“Nigel, I’m in the master control room now, which side controls the Ferris wheel?”
Hearing Neil’s voice, Nigel recollected himself and continued to guide him calmly,
“Left.”
“The two people inside are watching the video loudly. The door is locked and you can’t get in, but at the corner of the stairs, there are two security guards chatting with each other.”
“Got it!”
Neil took a deep breath, put down the necklace, took out a stack of red tickets from his pocket, and ran to the stairs quickly.
“Hello. Would you like to get promoted and make a fortune?”
Screek!
There was a deafening squeal of brakes. The black Maserati drove into the amusement park through the special passageway. The car door was flung open, and the tall man got out of the car quickly.
“Brother-in-law—!”
The teary-eyed Cynthal ran toward Brettley when he got out, and she flung herself into his arms.
“What should I do? Nellie is still in it! It’s all my fault!
“I shouldn’t let that maid bring Nellie up there! I told them that the Ferris wheel was dangerous, but the maid didn’t listen at all. To please Nellie, she had to follow her wishes.”
Brettley was confused, unable to tell whether Cynthal’s words were true or false.
“How long have they been up there?”
“It’s been ten minutes.”
Cynthal wiped her tears, so much in grief that she seemed out of breath.
“I can’t live with myself if something happened to Nellie today! If I knew she’d be in danger, I would’ve gone up even though I wasn’t feeling well! If the person with Nellie was me, I wouldn’t feel so unhappy and guilty…”
“That’s enough.”
Brettley scrunched his eyebrows, irritated by Cynthal’s crying.
“Did the staff in the amusement park repair it?”
“They’ve been repairing it since the accident happened, but they don’t know what went wrong…”
Cynthal pointed to the maintenance staff under the Ferris wheel.
“How could such a thing happen…?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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